Re: [Gumstix-users] flashing over ethernet

Craig Hughes escreveu:
> On Feb 8, 2006, at 5:36 PM, Alexandre Pereira Nunes wrote:
>
>> 2.6.11, you can keep u-boot as is; if it's a 2.6.15 and you don't
>> have a
>> serial cable, you can flash the latest uboot and erase the sector 1
>> (the
>> data), and let the default environment run. If I'm not wrong, it's set
>> for 2.6.15 boot args.
>
>
> NO! DON'T ERASE SECTOR 1 to try and erase the settings. That's no
> longer how the settings are stored in u-boot -- not for probably 6
> months now has that been the case. The settings are now embedded in
> the tail end of sector 1, but the start of sector 1 contains u-boot
> executable code. That's how a 140kB+ u-boot can fit in flash made up
> of 128kB sectors.
>
> C
>
Wow! Luckly you let us know, otherwise I would have a few bricks! :-)
Alexandre